Note: Full size doesn't really go to full-size. There is a ton more resolution to the photo. I had my aperature wide open (35mm, F1.8, ISO 100, 1/3200 sec). This exposure blurs everything but the subject in focus.

Here's what it looks like at full resolution.

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Subject: Re: Personal Photos Sat Apr 06, 2013 9:17 pm

Very nice pictures, Eric.It is finally warm here...in the 70s today. It was only in the 40s just a couple of days ago. The pear trees are done blooming. Our dogwoods here are very close to blooming out. Just in a couple of days, I think. The leaves are coming out on the trees. The mountains are turning green. The chipmunks ( I love those little critters!) are busy, busy. I cannot seem to keep our bird feeder full. There are so many birds in our back yard. I love this time of year here in North Alabama. But it has been so late in coming this year.

This time of year, it is nice to drive around and see the colors. It was taken with a cheap dashcam.

When this was posted to YouTube, it got washed out quite a bit.

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riceme

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Subject: Re: Personal Photos Mon Nov 04, 2013 9:30 pm

Eric wrote:

Woah! I am copying my photos to a different hard drive. There are 21,000 of them. (I suspect there are more than a few duplicates.)

I takes a lot of photos... ya think?

LOL, ya when I was helping my friend Kathy (the one who took that awesome Supermoon photo) clean-up and fix her computer before I left California, she had over 63k duplicate files on her machine, most of which were photos. :-o She was using 12 different photo programs (each of which was a roughly 100MB program, two were 200MB) and was saving the same photos in all sorts of different random places all over her HD. I got her down to three programs and saving them in ONE place, haha. She's just not a "computer person" and didn't understand what it was doing to her machine to do that. I essplained it to her. It's a nice, but old XP machine and she does not want to "upgrade," to Windows 7 or 8, and I don't blame her. I *still* don't like Windows 7 and I've been using it since the beginning of 2011.

They were also PAYING some ass-hat who bills himself as a computer whiz to come out to the house every couple of months to do "computer maintenance" who had left her instructions to use some really crappy programs to maintain their machine between his visits, and he had stuck the note to her tower with a MAGNET. I screamed when I saw it.

I wanted to call him to chew him out but she wouldn't let me. She did take very detailed notes on the instructions I gave her on how to use Malwarebytes, CCleaner and Glary Utilities, and she promised not to call that jerk ever again.

I just had to take a pic of the distant ridgelines this morning. Facing East at about 9 a.m.

Double Oak Mountain is in the distance. I could photoshop the power line out, but that would be cheatin'.

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Subject: Re: Personal Photos Tue Jan 14, 2014 10:18 pm

riceme wrote:

Eric wrote:

Woah! I am copying my photos to a different hard drive. There are 21,000 of them. (I suspect there are more than a few duplicates.)

I takes a lot of photos... ya think?

LOL, ya when I was helping my friend Kathy (the one who took that awesome Supermoon photo) clean-up and fix her computer before I left California, she had over 63k duplicate files on her machine, most of which were photos. :-o She was using 12 different photo programs (each of which was a roughly 100MB program, two were 200MB) and was saving the same photos in all sorts of different random places all over her HD. I got her down to three programs and saving them in ONE place, haha. She's just not a "computer person" and didn't understand what it was doing to her machine to do that. I essplained it to her. It's a nice, but old XP machine and she does not want to "upgrade," to Windows 7 or 8, and I don't blame her. I *still* don't like Windows 7 and I've been using it since the beginning of 2011.

They were also PAYING some ass-hat who bills himself as a computer whiz to come out to the house every couple of months to do "computer maintenance" who had left her instructions to use some really crappy programs to maintain their machine between his visits, and he had stuck the note to her tower with a MAGNET. I screamed when I saw it.

I wanted to call him to chew him out but she wouldn't let me. She did take very detailed notes on the instructions I gave her on how to use Malwarebytes, CCleaner and Glary Utilities, and she promised not to call that jerk ever again.

There are some amazing photos on this thread and they put any to shame that I've taken with my little Sony camera. The ones Eric took of the fly and that his wife took of the ant belong in National Geographic. You mentioned Malwarebytes though, so I wanted to give a warning to anyone who downloads a program called ad aware antivirus. I loaded it into my number one computer a week or so ago and it installed a "conduit" virus that absolutely wrecked my computer. I had to reformat it and am now afraid to put any antivirus programs in because adaware was supposed to be one of the better ones. Malwarebytes couldn't get rid of conduit. I couldn't find anything that did. It is surprising that a program intended to protect your computer actually has the viruses in it that will wreck it.